Things are a little crazy this week, and I pretty much forgot I needed to write a post. I’m pretty certain I was planning one on why you sometimes need to spend money on yourself, even if it seems like you shouldn’t. I guess that post will come next week. Yesterday we submitted a rather important application, with a $300 application fee. We’ve gotten the email that they’ve received the application and will let usread more…
Today I’m ranting. I try not to rant here too much. My friends and family get enough of that, but sometimes, I need to say it to a wider public. Stupid Regulations Rant one is againstKingCounty, where I live. They have laws/regulations in place that restrict who can offer cable TV in the different areas of the county. Where I live, the only authorized cable provider is Comcast. (These regulations were passed in order toread more…
I avoid lots of chores by instead “working” on growing my blog. It’s really a fine way to spend the 5-6 hours I’m home alone on Saturday, even though that’s also prime chore doing time. (I am more likely to do chores when there aren’t people here to distract me.) One of the chores that comes along with having dogs is picking up poop. Not only has it been a while since we’ve picked up theread more…
Because I am too lazy to come up with an original post today, I’m answering these questions from Jana over a Daily Money $hot. I’m being extra lazy and not even posting the rules of the meme. I’m just answering the questions. 1. What is the one item you like to splurge on? It used to be getting my nails done, but now it’s shoes- a $200 pair every couple of years. (When did I becomeread more…
Day Amount Place Category Monday $150.00 Car Service Car Thursday $80.00 Gas Car Friday $275.00 CostCo Groceries Sunday $7.00 Starbucks Allowance $90.00 Fred Meyer Groceries $12.50 Safeway Groceries A little over $600 this week. The car service will come out of the car account, and the gas wasn’t just filling up the car but also three of our reserve tanks as well. $110 of the CostCo spending was renewing our membership. In a few weeks we’llread more…
Tuesday is Saint Valentine’s Day- not that C and I are doing anything. I get my braces off on Wednesday, and that’s what I really want to celebrate. Of course, I’ll need to give my mouth some time to recover, so we won’t be doing anything until next weekend. But it still makes a great theme for this weekend’s roundup, so here we go. Frugal Beautiful asks that ever important question- Love and Money: Are Youread more…
I almost always do our taxes twice. I do a preliminary run through as soon as we have all (or most) of our paperwork. And later I’ll sit down with TurboTax and do a complete return. I like to know what’s coming up. This week, partly in preparation for yesterday’s Coffee Talk post, I did the first run through of our 2011 return. Last year, we owed around $1,100. This year, C only received half asread more…
This post is part of February Coffee Talk, as hosted by First Gen American. Please check out her site to see all the other entries in the series. What can you learn about me from my tax return? There are a lot of the standard little things. Married, somewhat traditional- we have the same last name, C’s name is listed first on the tax return. No kids. We own our home. We have lots ofread more…
